Pure accidents, events that cannot be anticipated, seldom happen. Rather, someone has blundered, disobeyed an order, or undertaken to reverse a law of nature. These human errors include inproperly laid track, badly designed; faulty equipment; employees' negligent of careless actions; passengers' or pedestrians' thoughtless or risky behavior; or some combination of these factors.
Cited in: Burnham JC (2009). Accident Prone: A history of technology, psychology, and misfits of the machine age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08117-5. [not verified] The book was favorably reviewed by David Hemenway in Injury Prevention (2011), doi: 10.1136/ip.2011.031658.
Special Thanks to Dr. Burnham for providing an electronic copy of the bibliographic notes that accompany each chapter. This greatly facilitated adding previously unidentified records to the SafetyLit database. SafetyLit users may obtain a listing of the book's references by searching using the following Textword(s) Exact query: "Burnham-Accident-Prone".
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